“The most difficult thing in my journey is the way that people have reacted to my making money,” she tells the publisher of Forbes Woman. “Money brings out a really vicious side in other people. It surprises me because you always think about people making money and it changing them, you never think about it changing everything else. Fame isn’t the thing that changed the people around me, but money is.”

“People look at you differently. People make up stories about you. People speculate about what you’ve had and what you’ve done and really try and tear you down and I had no idea that would be the case. And I think it’s really despicable,” Bethenny says.

Has the reality star made any sacrifices in her personal life to get where she is as a businesswoman?